396 Pa. Super. 49 - Clapper v. Clapper’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
22 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth Ex Rel. Robinson v. Robinson · Albright v. Commonwealth Ex Rel. Fetters · Mt. Lebanon v. County Board of Elections · Ballou v. State Ethics Commission · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Pierce v. Pierce
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While we cannot fault Mrs. Clapper for wanting to better her life, she may be accomplishing her goals at the expense of the children. The effect of the move would be to uproot Jessica and John from familiar and congenial surroundings and to remove them from their father, who up to this time has maintained a steady and frequent relationship with his children.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lambert v. Lambert
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.